ICC World Cup 2019: Harsha Bhogle picks his Indian squad for the tournament

[Dil Dil India]

It should be (considering what's likely and within the realms of possibility given clueless Shastri and Kohli)

 

Batsmen

1) Kohli

2) Rohit

3) Dhawan

4) Jadhav

5) Rayudu (he will be there, unfortunately)

6) Rahul (not bad on flat LOI pitches; he scored a 100 in LOI even last year during his torrid run)

 

WK

 

1) Dhoni

2) Karthik

 

All rounders

 

1) Pandya (PLEASE NO VIJAY SHANKAR)

 

Spinners

 

1) Kuldeep

2) Chahal

 

Fast bowlers

1)Bhuvi

2)Bumrah

3)Shami

 

That makes 14. I really wish we had Pant/Shaw/Gill with 20 matches under their belt.

Edited February 1, 2019 by Dil Dil India

[Tendulkar1996]

Poor team.Rahul out Gill in because he can atleast play in middle order unlike primadonna who cant even buy a run vs england A on indian wkts.One of rayudud and DK must go in favour of pant.

I hope we can get pant and gill in world cup,but i hope atleast we take pant if gill is not possible.

[Dil Dil India]

57 minutes ago, Tendulkar1996 said:

Poor team.Rahul out Gill in because he can atleast play in middle order unlike primadonna who cant even buy a run vs england A on indian wkts.One of rayudud and DK must go in favour of pant.

I hope we can get pant and gill in world cup,but i hope atleast we take pant if gill is not possible.

I think it isn't ideal to take Gill now (and they won't, anyway). Ideally, they should have given Gill at least 8-10 games by now. Pant would be a better punt because he has already toughed it out in international cricket and has 2 good test centuries in England and Aus (ofc World Cup is a different kettle of fish altogether). We seem to be stuck with Rayudu-Dhoni-Karthik for the WC.